Game on: Board games help seniors deal with memory loss

11:13 PM,
May 15, 2014

Heidi Hediger, of The GameBoard in Sheboygan, guides seniors at Libby's House in Plymouth playing 'Timeline.' Players match two cards together, each with an object such as a light bulb and a satellite. Players then decide which object was invented first.

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She said that's because games have helped her son, Erik, a 17-year-old junior at North High School, overcome multiple disabilities in his life, such as severe speech delay, which has been rectified, color blindness and dysgraphia. Erik was her inspiration to launch The GameBoard in Sheboygan, a business on North Eighth Street where people come to play cards, dice and other types of table games.

Eight years later she says her sense of mission now transcends her son. ...